Alan Andrews, a lawyer with the not-for-profit environmental legal group ClientEarth, has won a ruling in the Court of Justice of the European Union, the EU’s highest court, which will enable the group to pursue the UK government for breaches of air quality standards under the EU air quality

Alys Cunningham, an assistant solicitor at Thompsons Solicitors, advised members of the union, Unite, in the Employment Appeal Tribunal case that ruled that overtime should be included in calculating holiday pay — and that workers could make backdated claims, but only for a limitedperiod if there

Lady Justice King has been appointed to the Court of Appeal, increasing the number to eight, and raising the number of women appellate judges to one in five. She was appointed to the High Court family division in 2008. In a landmark ruling in 2013, she agreed a 36-year-old man with severe learning

Anna Mills, a senior associate at Hogan Lovells, won a ruling for the Royal British Legion on behalf of ten ex-servicemen, or the widows of servicemen, who were on Christmas Island, Australia, during Grapple X, Y and Z or in Maralinga for Operation Buffalo, both sites for nuclear tests, in the

John Wilkinson, a life sciences partner in the London office of Reed Smith, advised Danish life sciences company Bavarian Nordic on an exclusive licence agreement for its ebola vaccine, multivalent MVA-BN Filovirus, to Johnson & Johnson Dutch subsidiary Crucell Holland. What were the main

Becoming a student often means saying goodbye to the Bank of Mum and Dad, and becoming financially independent by opening your own account. A range of offers are out there as banks try to tempt new students. Inertia often means only a minority of account-holders switch banks, so it is worth it for

Vijay Kumar, a partner in Michael Hill Partnership, Leicester, acts for the parents of the five-year-old brain tumour patient Ashya King, who took the boy from Southampton General Hospital to Spain to fund proton beam treatment for Ashya in Prague and were subject to a European arrest warrant. The

Adam Chapman, head of public law at Kingsley Napley, acted for the London Criminal Courts Solicitors’ Association and the Criminal Law Solicitors’ Association in their judicial review challenge to the lord chancellor’s legal aid reforms. The High Court ruled the process, which led to cutting legal

Michael Mylonas, QC, of Serjeants’ Inn Chambers, acted for an NHS trust in the recent Court of Protection case where Mr Justice Cobb ruled that doctors could lawfully decline to force-feed an anorexic woman despite the probability that she would die. What were the main challenges? After hospital

Schona Jolly, of Cloisters chambers, acts for Metropolitan Police firearms officer Carol Howard, whom the Central London Employment Tribunal ruled had been directly discriminated against on grounds of sex and race, and that the force had instructed that internal findings about that discrimination